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Theorize

//ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject. intransitive

    "Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago."

  2. 2
    form or construct theories wordnet
  3. 3
    To speculate. intransitive
  4. 4
    construct a theory about wordnet
  5. 5
    to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds wordnet

Etymology

From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.

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